That’s not how you respond to someone saying “people are stupid.”

That’s not true at all. If I had the means to do so, I would be donating more, though I’m living pretty precariously myself.

The lumps in the sand are where they bury the bodies

5: 1, 0, 0, 10, 100. (or 4 if uniqueness matters).

I’m just trying to understand your POV, not trying to make a point here.

Ok, what things are much harder / difficult for you?

What is your definition of burden?

I am sure there is someone else out there who also does this. You’re looking for validation.

If you have the finances, then it’s not a huge issue. If you don’t, then you may want to try and not do this. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Attention is where you place focus on something. This is done through both the action of looking and the action of taking that information in and comprehending what you’re looking at. Attention can be applied to other senses too, such as listening, feeling, etc.

It’s also another word for alertness.

I would say that it’s a bumper sticker, an exclamation, to show that the person driving is fun-loving and country-loving.

Has similar vibes to YOLO (you only live once) as well.

I still use it occasionally for some things, though I’ve noticed a steep quality drop on Reddit. I spend much more time on Lemmy.

Lemmy > Discovery, Reddit > Specific Subs that haven’t yet migrated.

They aren’t being picked from the plant, the peck of pickled peppers Peter picks are from an entrée of already pickled peppers.

The shells she sells are sea shells for sure.

You can also imagine a movable centre.

Let it sway slowly before your forehead and circle your head from time to time, and you will sense the psychology of a bewildered person.

Let it circle irregularly around your whole body, in varying tempos, now going up and now sinking down, and the effect will no doubt be one of intoxication.

(Johnstone, 1987, p. 180).

There’s a book called Impro by Keith Johnstone.

It’s a book about improvisation, though in there there’s a very interesting part on moving your center around when it comes to character work.

So long as the centre remains in the middle of your chest (pretend it’s a few inches deep), you will feel that you are still yourself and in full command, only more energetically and harmoniously so, with your body approaching an “ideal type”.

As soon as you try to shift the centre to some other place within or outside your body, you will feel that your whole psychological and physical attitude will change, just as it changes when you step into an imaginary body.

You will notice that the centre is able to draw and concentrate your whole being into one spot from which your activity emanates and radiates.

(Johnstone, 1987, p. 179).

If you look in the image above “Showerthoughts,” that yellow bulb shape is where you would store the hydrogen.

I had to look up what cuckold is, though honestly you do you. “Cuckold” sounds kind of derogatory, kind of like the N word.

As long as everyone on-board is consenting, I don’t see a problem.

Sounds like a bit of both; I don’t believe she’s lying to you though.

The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer talks about loneliness.

Loneliness happens when you’ve:

1. Blocked an experience of loneliness inside of you and;
2. That experience is being triggered through similar events.

Instead of changing the world to accommodate your thorn, to avoid feeling the thorn, you want to accept that you’re going to eventually have to face the thorn in order to get rid of it. Go through life, allow the thorn to be triggered, be aware of the sensations that arise, and then work on relaxing and releasing it as it comes up.

Once the thorn is gone, as long as you stay open and don’t allow another thorn to wedge itself in there, you will be free.

You mention you’re particularly extroverted; I wonder how much of that behaviour is based on resolving an inner loneliness. I’m also one for social situations, though I do it for a completely different reason: I love people. I just really like them. That doesn’t go away.

We could already theoretically simulate a universe; our only limiting factor is the amount of power we have available to us.

It might not be identical to our own universe as we are still missing the necessary knowledge to do that, though who’s to say our host universe has the same laws of physics etc. as ours? It’s not necessary to simulate our host universe, though rather a universe with a specific set of parameters that we decide on.

That specific set of parameters were likely chosen for our own universe.